Tom Roche offers a personal insight to the 2013 Surfing Intervarsities, the most successful incarnation of the competition to date. Charts ‘’Have you checked the forecast?’’ was the most repeated set of words in the lead up to the weekend. A week out and things were looking grim. The north-west devil wind was forecast to…
Cheater Cheater, Pumpkin Eater! As a prominent singleton on the college nightlife scene it has come to my awareness that the majority of people cheat. They cheat on their boyfriends/girlfriends with what seems like no remorse. Faithful seems to not have any meaning. My experience relates to only one gender, those which possess a penis,…
UCC Dramat has a wealth of upcoming events in store running both on and off campus, writes Micheál Phelan. UCC Dramat have had a busy and a very successful year’s worth of theatre and is about to open their eighth and final full length production of the year, entitled And Then There Were None…
Julie Daunt discusses the pastel pink phase “Wow, that’s an interesting hair colour!” This is a usual comment I hear regarding my pink hair. Yes, it’s not your average mousey brown (although that is what my natural hair colour is). And yes, it does attract attention, sometimes unwanted. In my job I got called…
Out of the newspaper and into your bedrooms, Fashion Editor Kieran Murphy talks to women about the state of Irish men’s underwear choices Ever since the UCC Express gave women a forum to voice their dissatisfaction in men’s wardrobe choices, the males of the UCC student body have listened and there’s been a 70% decrease…
Ruth Ní Leannacháin looks at the quality of tattoos in modern times Tattoos are more popular now than they have ever been. Far from being an act of rebellion reserved for rock stars and bikers, they have become widely accepted as the norm. They were huge on the catwalk a few years ago with established…
Julie Daunt takes a look at some of the most anticipated books to be published in 2013. 2013 is to be a promising year for new publications. From anticipated posthumous releases to epic series finales, there are plenty of books to keep you occupied until 2014. This year is all about vampires, magic, love,…
Ellen Desmond turns the spotlight on Ireland’s most renowned stained glass artist, Harry Clarke. It often happens that we’re lucky enough to have a masterpiece on our doorstep and not realise it or that we become so accustomed to its presence that we forget what it means and how much it’s really worth. Harry Clarke’s…
David Coleman finds the relative lack of sentimentality in The Impossible refreshing. The disaster movie is a difficult one to get right. Several have tried to capture the sheer scale of their chosen disasters, but this comes at the expense of any genuine impact. By failing to establish any human struggle the centre of the…
Cathal Dennehy praises Ang Lee’s Life of Pi. If there was ever an unfilmable novel, Yann Martel’s Life of Pi is a story for which the phrase seems to have been made. The bulk of the novel focuses on a teenage boy and a tiger afloat on a life raft in the middle of the…